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March 18, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama and Jesse Jackson, black bargainers vs challengers
Shelby Steele sez:
And yet, in the end, Barack Obama's candidacy is not qualitatively different from Al Sharpton's or Jesse Jackson's. Like these more irascible of his forbearers, Mr. Obama's run at the presidency is based more on the manipulation of white guilt than on substance. Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson were "challengers," not bargainers. They intimidated whites and demanded, in the name of historical justice, that they be brought forward. Mr. Obama flatters whites, grants them racial innocence, and hopes to ascend on the back of their gratitude. Two sides of the same coin.
It just doesn't look to me like Barack is able to keep up his end of this cheesy little psychological economic bargain. His wife is smart and good looking, but clearly has some deep resentments against America and white folks. It's pretty difficult to see how you can offer convincing absolution to white folks with the First Lady carrying on about how "mean" the country is and how un-proud she is of the country. And if we DON'T elect her husband, she'll go right back to being ashamed of US.
Also, it's real hard to accept Barack's assurances of forgiveness for our supposed horrible sins when he has sought out and spent his whole adult life in a black nationalist church with the preacher carrying on from the pulpit about AmeriKKKa and the government supposedly purposely giving black people AIDS. No, says Barack's spiritual guide Rev Jeremiah Wright, black people shouldn't sing "God Bless America," they should be saying "God DAMN America."
If a black man (or pretty much anyone else) wants to be elected President of the United States, they're going to have to be able to convincingly sing the classic Irving Berlin song mocked by Rev Wright. They'll have to be able to unequivocally and without reservation sing "God bless America, land that I love." They'll have to convince the country that they mean it with every fiber of their being.
Of course, Obama might as much as literally start singing that song at rallies (hint, hint), but it's going to be pretty difficult to convince people that you really mean it when your closest associates clearly, repeatedly and vociferously proclaim directly the opposite.
By the way, Walter Williams has a hella good bargain for y'all white folks: He'll officially absolve you of racial guilt , and you don't even have to elect him to office - though that would actually be an excellent idea.
posted by Al at 3/18/2008 10:50:00 AM
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